Mob Destroys Ebola Center Two Days After It Opens
Fear and denial of the deadly virus are pervasive in Liberia. The mob exponentially increased the risk in one of the country’s biggest Ebola…
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Liberian Capital Runs out of Space for Ebola Patients
A Liberian government employee on his way to a conference became the first Ebola death in Nigeria. But a specialist unit in Monrovia is…
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Happy International Women’s Day!
I wish I was in Bukavu today, where I’ve met so many strong, amazing women fighting against not only the horrors (rape) we often…
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Mae Azango Exposed a Secret Ritual
Todee, Liberia — It’s late afternoon in Todee, a village in rural Liberia, and the sun is starting to drop. Mae Azango settles into…
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Reporter Threatened Over Female Circumcision Story
I came to Liberia to work with a newspaper reporter named Mae Azango, in the capital city, Monrovia. We were going to do a…
Read MoreVisible Liberians
Someone asked me recently how I thought Africans were responding to the Kony2012 video, since I am in Liberia. I was at a loss…
Read MoreViolence erupts on eve of #Liberia elections (breaking w/ field reporting & aggregation)
Here’s what we seem to know at around 10:45 eastern time this morning: Al Jazeera (AJE) is reporting three people dead, based on their correspondent’s…
Read MoreWith this death, losing a way of seeing — and being in — the world
Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, two eminent photographers and journalists, were killed yesterday in Libya. I’d learned about Tim’s work from Glenna Gordon, whose…
Read MoreMust-see photos from Liberia on Cote d’Ivoire
Probably everyone here already knows photojournalist extraordinare Glenna Gordon, but just in case you’re under a rock or otherwise prone to miss this —…
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